Personal Financial Planning Community Guides

This guide will help firms identify whether a DPB (Investment Business) licence or FCA authorisation is needed to undertake a particular investment activity or whether this can be done without any authorisation under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the Act). This guide was reissued in November 2021.

This inheritance tax and estate planning guide aims to raise awareness of the opportunities for chartered accountants to work more collaboratively with regulated financial advisers and other personal financial planning professionals.

This technical guide provides detailed information on the rules and regulations for Pension Freedoms. The guide has been designed to help professionals get-to-grips with this complicated and increasingly important area.

The guide explains how the FCA regulates financial & investment advisers, including an explanation of the differences between Independent and Restricted financial advice firms.

A guide produced alongside relevant sponsors and content partners to introduce opportunities for accountants to expand their offering in the space of personal financial planning.